limit 0,10 within SELECT ..... FROM ......

Started by Paul Ottar Tornesover 23 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Paul Ottar Tornes
critical@tiscali.no

I run PostgreSQL and have some questions:

How come
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 0,10";
Does not display any posts in my news script, but
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10";
Shows the last 10.?

And:

How come
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10,20";
Displays posts 5 to 14, and not 10 to 20?!

Regards

Paul Ottar Tornes

#2Lee Kindness
lkindness@csl.co.uk
In reply to: Paul Ottar Tornes (#1)

Probably because you're really wanting to do:

SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat
FROM nyheter ORDER BY desc LIMIT 10, 0

(i.e. got the arguments the wrong way round) It's much more intuitive
to use the "LIMIT n OFFSET m" syntax.

Lee.

Paul Ottar Tornes writes:

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I run PostgreSQL and have some questions:

How come
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 0,10";
Does not display any posts in my news script, but
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10";
Shows the last 10.?

And:

How come
$query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10,20";
Displays posts 5 to 14, and not 10 to 20?!